The president of France has apparently only ever had one other relationship, with a girlfriend his own age, according to Macron's biographer, Anne Fulda.

The first lady is apparently a regular at Paris Fashion Week, but swapped the front row to support her husband in his presidential campaign.

Brigitte is also known for her strong personal sense of style.

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At the top, the couple looked relaxed as they shared a bottle of wine with colleagues.

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They also appear to be keen skiers. Here, the couple smiles for the cameras as they take a chairlift up to the mountaintop for a lunch break during a campaign visit to Bagneres-de-Bigorre, in the Pyrenees in Southwestern France.

Brigitte divorced her banker husband and father of her children, André-Louis Auzière, in 2006, and married Macron the following year.

Brigitte was Macron's drama teacher. They met at the Jésuites de la Providence lycée high school, in Amiens, when he was 15.

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Macron was reportedly packed off to Paris to finish his studies when news broke of his close bond with the married mother of three. Trogneux told Paris Match magazine that, at 17, Emmanuel told her: "Whatever you do, I will marry you."

There is a 24-year age gap between 64-year-old Brigitte and 39-year-old Macron.

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She is the youngest of six Trogneux children and her family are famous chocolatiers in the region of Amiens. Les Trogneux is lauded for its macaroons.